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Jeff and Debbie Karam got in their Chevy Silverado, headed west and kept going. The Rocky Mountains, Grand Canyon, Las Vegas and more.

“It didn’t rain at all,” Karam said. “We saw everything. It was an incredible time. It was really cool.

“In the back of my mind, I started my bucket list.”

At the end of that trip, Karam formulated a plan to make the 2022-23 Bethlehem Catholic wrestling season one in which he gave everything he could.

A sour-tasting end to the previous season pushed the ultra-competitive Karam to do that.

Bethlehem Catholic this season won every dual meet, won every postseason team title.

And now the 55-year-old Karam is walking away after three decades of coaching a sport he’s given most of his life to.

“When we got done with individual states,” Karam said, “I was really tired. I thought about things the last couple weeks. I got to the point where I feel I know what the program needs, and I don’t feel I can give that kind of commitment right now.”

Karam won 364 times in his coaching career at Delaware Valley (N.J.), Freedom and Bethlehem Catholic. He won an absurd 88.9% of his matches while in charge of the Golden Hawks. bad bunny grand canyon shirt target